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  • Founded Date April 13, 1984
  • Sectors Education
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Company Description

South China Morning Post

In January 2024, Hong Kong paper South China Morning Post reported that a university research laboratory connected to individuals’s Liberation Army (PLA) had checked Ernie Bot and iFlyTek’s Spark for military response plans with circumstances including the United States. After its noted stock in Hong Kong plunged by more than 11.5 percent, Baidu made a main declaration denying the claims. [11]

Ernie was incorporated for the Chinese launch of Samsung’s Galaxy S24 lineup. [14] [15]

In June 2024, Baidu revealed that Ernie Bot had reached 300 million users. The business likewise unveiled its newest structure design, Ernie 4.0 Turbo, which boasts quicker reaction times and enhanced performance. [16]

In September 2024, Baidu gave everybody using the app access to the 4.0 Turbo model and likewise announced it would alter its Chinese name from “Wenxin Yiyan” (文心一言) to “Wenxiaoyan” (文小言) placing itself as a search assistant. [17] [18]

Training

Ernie Bot is based upon specific Ernie structure designs, consisting of Ernie 3.0, Ernie 3.5, and Ernie 4.0. The training procedure begins with pre-training, gaining from trillions of information points and billions of knowledge pieces. This was followed by refinement through monitored fine-tuning, support learning with human feedback, and trigger. [19]

Service

In its subscription alternatives, the professional plan gives users access to Ernie 4.0 with a payment either for a month or with reduced payment for auto-renewal each month. Meanwhile, Ernie 3.5 is totally free of charge. [20]

Ernie 4.0, the language design for Ernie bot, has info upgraded to April 2023. [10]

Censorship

Ernie Bot goes through the Chinese federal government’s censorship program. [21] [22] [23] In public tests with journalists, Ernie Bot declined to respond to questions about Xi Jinping, the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, the persecution of Uyghurs in China in Xinjiang, and the 2019-2020 Hong Kong protests. [22] [24] [25] When queried about the origin of SARS-CoV-2, Ernie Bot stated that it stemmed among American vape users. [22]

See likewise

Artificial intelligence industry in China
ChatGPT
Google Gemini

References

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^ Sun, Yu; Wang, Shuohuan; Feng, Shikun; Ding, Siyu; Pang, Chao; Shang, Junyuan; Liu, Jiaxiang; Chen, Xuyi; Zhao, Yanbin (2021-07-05). “ERNIE 3.0: Large-scale Knowledge Enhanced Pre-training for Language Understanding and Generation”. arXiv:2107.02137 [cs.CL]
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^ Porter, Jon (2024-01-26). “Samsung’s new phones replace Google AI with Baidu in China”. The Verge. Archived from the initial on 2024-02-22. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
^ Mo, Liam (June 28, 2024). “Baidu launches updated AI model, states Ernie Bot strikes 300 mln users”. Reuters. Retrieved June 28, 2024.
^ Ben Jiang (2024-09-04). “Baidu rebrands flagship AI chatbot to stand apart from competitors”. South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2024-09-12.
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